Payton Pritchard talked some trash and backed it up with another big night off the bench, helping boost the shorthanded Celtics to a 108-89 bounce-back victory over the Heat on Monday.
Here are the takeaways.
Payton Pritchard had words for Erik Spoelstra (and another big night).
Pritchard had yet another big game, becoming – as noted by the NBC Sports Boston broadcast – the first Celtics player since Isaiah Thomas in 2015 to score 20 or more points in four straight games off the bench. The Heat didn’t have many answers for Pritchard, who buried five 3-pointers in 12 attempts, scooted the rim repeatedly and knocked down a couple of mid-range jumpers, confirming Joe Mazzulla’s claims that his spark-plug guard can score at all three levels.